So, was it a good game for Colby or a bad game? He was the losing pitcher. And he did allow the game-changing three-run homer in the four-run third inning. But all four of those runs were unearned. But they counted. Funny thing about unearned runs is, they are not […]
It’s featured guys like Yohander Mendez, Anthony Raunado, Michael Roth, Luke Jackson, and Tom Wilhelmsen whose ERAs respectively were, and this is not a typo: 18.00, 17.19, 14.73, 10.80, and 10.55. Then there were the guys who were just classified as bad: Chi Chi Gonzales 8.71, Dario Alvarez 8.71, Andrew […]
Yankees rookie catcher Gary Sanchez is the best baseball player ever to play baseball in the history of baseball. I know that because the New York sports writers say he is. So do the east-coast radio personalities on MLB Network TV and radio. “He has turned the Yankees […]
The Rangers have won 94 games this season. In more than half of those, 49 to be exact, they have come from behind to win. It’s gotten to the point that when they don’t come from behind to win a game in the eighth or ninth inning, you think […]
Last season, with nine games left to go, the Rangers had a seemingly insurmountable lead of 4.5 games in the West. They proceeded to lose five of the next eight, and saw themselves up just one game going into the final game of the season. They turned comfort into agony. This […]
Last night’s debate was highly anticipated. So much is at stake. There is so much to lose. But it didn’t take long for the fireworks. It didn’t take long for the trainwreck. If these are our two choices, we might be in serious trouble this fall. If these are our two choices, […]
You can look at it this way. In three games and twenty-six total innings, the Oakland Athletics were able to muster up runs in only one inning. Just one in twenty-six. That’s pretty impressive pitching, right? Okay, so they scored seven in that inning to put the game away […]
We can come off the ledge now. The crisis has been averted. The question has been answered. For everyone who has been agonizing and asking what’s wrong with Hamels and Darvish, apparently nothing is. Nothing is exactly what the Athletics have been able to get off the top two Rangers […]
It’s a game of numbers. Every action a player commits is turned into a number. Home runs. On-base percentage. Batting average on balls hit in play. RBIs after the seventh inning. Salary numbers, arbitration numbers, qualifying offer numbers. All that off-season stuff that determines the number of wins a […]
The Rangers have nine games left. They are 90-63. Cleveland has ten games left. They are 89-63. Just one half game behind Texas. Boston has nine games left. They are 89-64. Just one game behind Texas. The race for the best record in the American League, and with it home […]